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Breaking news on cnn. we're covering a deadly collision on this bridge in the seattle, washington area. a spokesperson for the fire department is briefing the media. let's take a listen. >> four vehicles involved in this. it was a duck boat versus a bus. from that two people died from injuries from that incident. we transported nine and nine are having critical injuries. they were transported by medic unit to area hospitals. then we have 12, luckily, with nonlife threatening injuries and also were transported. e we looked at approximately 50 patients that we evaluated. these are the final numb...

>> let me go through that again. two dead people. my understanding, the majority of the critical patients were on the bus. my understanding is two fatality were two people on the charter bus. we have nine with critical injuries. at this point the breakdown from here, i don't know if they were from the duck or bus. i don't have gender or ages. a a lot of that information will come out later. i just wanted to get prelim marry information. we'll do another brief iing. the joint information center is up and running. we'll be plugging all our information there. you can get information by contacting...

Out. that's a major problem. >> i'm just getting new information. harbor view medical center is the hospital anticipating a a number of these who are injured. nursing supervisor has told cnn they are expecting 25 patients with unknown injuries. so i'm trying to understand. this must be such a challenge for these first responders because here they are and i don't know if the bus was full or the duck boat was full. but you have to anticipate l they are dealing with a number of people injured. how do you quickly assess? who is most injured and how do you get them out as quickly as possible? >> ty...

Breaking news as we're watching this accident in the aftermath unfolding. what you're looking at is the seattle area. this is lunchtime there. i it can tell you by the first response there, they are carrying victims out one by one on these back boards here on this bridge, which is 100% shut down to respond to this accident. as news are hovering over the scene, but it was a duck boat and a charter bus collided. we don't know how, we don't know why, but you can see both of them on the middle of this bridge. they have collided. we have now learned that at least two people died. here's the duck bo...

The triage has been created by multiple first responders responding quickly to victims. nine people critically injured, at least two deaths. we're anticipating a news briefing any moment now on what happened here. just awful on this bridge. all lanes closed down to traffic. the injured, as we have been watching not just on stretchers, but taking them out on back boards. if you have loved ones in the area, the injured are being taken to harbor view medical center. it was a ride the bucks tour boat that was involved in a collision with a charter bus there in the seattle area. >> i have the form ...